Hmm. Let me first begin by saying this: World conquest is dull. Ebbesen is a very good writer, because he manageds to make centuries of war and bloodshed interesting.
That didn't come out right.
Anyway.... Here's the conclusion, includig my horrible failure.
I regret to report that I did not succeed in uniting Germany. To make a long story short, heroic forces had conquered Africa. They had subdued Asia. They had taken the battle to the fearsome low aggressiveness natives of Australia.
They were then wiped out by the hordes of European troops. Perhaps I should explain it better.
From the start, my diplosliders had been creating a decentralized, narrow-minded, slave state. While good for stab (in retrospect this wasn’t a problem) it caused my tech to be far, far, far below that of Europe. So when my armies met there’s in 1650…..
The following happened.
“Orrissa has been besieged by England.”
”Sunda has been besieged by the Netherlands”
“Kamkatcha has been besieged by Russia.” This despite the fact that there were dozens of empty provinces between us.
“Alexandria has been besieged by Venice.”
And so on and so forth. War exhaustion hit in, and I watched in horror as my tech 9 armies were crushed by France’s forces of 1000 men. As war exhaustion hit 14%, revolts flared up at home and abroad. Poor government policies, a wave of obscurantism, and a political crisis results in a horrible state of the nation. The game ended with the government’s collapse, and the Dutch ruling most of China.
Thus, professor, I am sorry to report that despite my monopoly on India ink and the manpower of Asia, I was unable to succeed in conquering the world.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be signing up for the class on how to hold the world hostage with superweapons.
